Indian Catholic
PHNOM PENH : Sok Srey Ngai is 15 but can read and write the Khmer language only at a second-grade level. She needs to learn more if she is to have a chance at realizing her modest ambition to work in a beauty salon.
The Catholic parish in Kor Norear, her Vietnamese community about eight kilometers east of Phnom Penh along the Mekong river, is giving her that chance. She has taken Khmer lessons in the church compound for the past three years.
Another student, Chin Chantha, is only 10 but eager to read and write Khmer well enough to fulfill this dream of owning a construction company when he grows up, to support his family.
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